Visible cloaked units

posted on March 19th, 2012, 5:14 pm

I am running FO on very high settings and it works really great but I noticed a significant performance drop when centering screen on cloaked units which are visible (mine or allied). Is there any way to improve the performance on this issues or patch which should fix cloaking performance drop? Thanks

posted on March 19th, 2012, 5:19 pm

no.

Everyone gets that, gets even worse while (de-)cloaking.

You might need to reduce settings, or apply the expensive fix.

posted on March 19th, 2012, 8:51 pm

Yep nothing that is fixable as of yet its a litmitation of the engine im pretty sure.

posted on March 19th, 2012, 11:14 pm

A fix is on todo . Currently it's not really possible to fix, and seems to vary between machines.

posted on March 20th, 2012, 12:20 am

Yea i thought so, im pretty sure it was brought up in another forum at one point.

posted on May 30th, 2012, 3:24 pm

Chances are its your computer having problems rendering transparency. Make sure your DirectX and OpenGL are both up do date and that your drivers are updated as well.

I used to encounter this when I was beta-gaming this patch to test my mod compatibility. And I solved it through some several intricate fixes and changes on how my PC interfaces with my graphics card.

My problem was that the graphics were rendered before it processed the opacity. And since it was trying to stack transparency on opaque... it was lagging. Once I reversed the priority settings it worked fine.

posted on July 26th, 2012, 7:34 pm

I almost never notice this on my main computer, ( total overkill ) but on my laptop ( GPU is a Radeon Xpress 200m ) it's awful, cloaking just 1 or two ships grinds the game to a halt, I'll often select the units via hotkey and move them around via the minimap when cloaked

posted on July 30th, 2012, 9:39 am

yep, the renderer and several other graphics parts of armada are showing their age. That should be fixed with the next major version.

posted on July 31st, 2012, 3:43 am

I wonder why I never really noticed this when Armada II first came out, It was a huge disappointment I must've never played it very much.